• Certainly it casts Flickr as the monomythic web service, now ready for a return to the ordinary world.

    FORBES: Instagram Recovers From A Stumble As Flickr Reaps The Reward

  • What you will recognise is that this is from the ordinary world.

    BBC: Philip Glass: Have a sleep during Einstein on the Beach

  • Of course, intellectuals, whom I de fine as those who think ideas are more important than people, are notoriously bad at seeing the ordinary world and coming to moral decisions about it.

    FORBES: Men Blinded by Their Brains

  • To have hospital staff simply treat that as nothing out of the ordinary meant the world to him.

    CNN: Same-sex couples take long road to the altar

  • And they show the world that ordinary people in the Middle East want the same things for their children that we want for ours -- a decent life and a peaceful future.

    CNN: Text of President Bush's speech

  • The text message you receive from your rosebush, in this case, is really an invitation to a smarter world, a world where ordinary objects are transformed and enlightened so they can serve you better.

    FORBES: When Can Your Plant Talk? Mine Did Yesterday

  • People pretend the world is ordinary every day.

    NEWYORKER: The Yellow

  • Jenin is a rare place in the Arab world where ordinary people have a good word for Tony Blair, whose visits as envoy for the Quartet (the EU, Russia, the UN and the United States) put the city on the map.

    ECONOMIST: Palestinians and the talks

  • Businessmen, politicians and ordinary people across the poor world often blame western moneymen for their ills.

    ECONOMIST: The face of Mammon

  • Anderson wants to say something quirky and powerful about love and the miraculousness of ordinary lives, but his world neither intersects with ours at any point nor hangs together as an independent magical creation.

    NEWYORKER: Punch-Drunk Love

  • The telephone-equipment companies want voice dialling (useful in cars), automatic call-centres, computerised operator-services and messaging that allows users to pick up and send e-mails and faxes on an ordinary telephone anywhere in the world.

    ECONOMIST: Can machines talk? From next month they will

  • For The World is no ordinary cruise ship.

    ECONOMIST: Artists of the floating world

  • It is experience that can give a person a common touch and a sense of compassion, an understanding of how the world works and how ordinary people live.

    CNN: Transcript of Obama-Sotomayor announcement

  • For the sake of stability, and out of respect for the dead king, the royal family, local politicians, ordinary Jordanians and a panoply of world leaders have rallied behind King Abdullah.

    ECONOMIST: Jordan��s new king

  • By plugging a router into a cable modem, ordinary people are stepping into a complex world, where they need to understand some highly specialized technology, according to Michael Gartenberg, VP and Research Director, Jupiter Research.

    ENGADGET: The Family is the Network: Pure Networks' Network Magic wants to make things simple

  • It was first levied in 1902 as a way of getting the rich to help pay for the construction of the Kaiser's navy, putting it among the lesser-known causes of the first world war. (Ordinary folk were doing their part by drinking beer.) It was scrapped in 1933 to stimulate the economy but Hitler brought it back, again with martial intent, six years later.

    ECONOMIST: German taxes

  • "The beauty of it is, I can cherry-pick products and hire world-class money managers unavailable to ordinary investors, " says Jeffrey A. Weber, the 33-year-old chief executive.

    FORBES: Achieving immortality via the family office

  • Boston collector Fred Sharf collects 1950s "high style" pieces designed by Van Cleef, but he's lately started buying "retro" pieces that were made with "ordinary stones" like citrine during the Depression and World War II.

    WSJ: Collectors Focus on Jewels as Investments

  • The 39-year-old from England, who has suffered nearly 20 lung collapses due to a condition known as Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), is part of a multinational crew taking part in the bi-annual Clipper Round the World Yacht Race -- the only sailing race in the world where crews are made up by ordinary people, many with little or no sailing experience.

    CNN: July 12, 2012 -- Updated 1330 GMT (2130 HKT)

  • That compulsiveness extends to ordinary users some of whom seem incapable of acknowledging the world around them as they burrow down into their smartphones.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • Justice Stephen Breyer said that in today's world, a registered letter is worse than ordinary mail, noting that "we don't all have butlers at the door" and asking why the U.S. Post Office can't be more flexible, like Federal Express.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Although most people the world over say they prefer non-violence, ordinary people can get sucked into organised violence with relative ease, Mr Slim notes.

    ECONOMIST: Civilians in war

  • The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics from the Ancient World to the Twenty-First Century.

    ECONOMIST: Economic history

  • But in my world, a wise person, or a person of ordinary judgment will not become deeply emotionally attached to a person until you actually see your soul mate with your own eyes, and not be so trusting of a video or electronic transmission.

    FORBES: Who's Been Duped? The Manti Te'o Hoax.

  • Opponents (never mind ordinary Indonesians) had little power to make demands, neighbors had little incentive and world leaders little interest.

    CNN: Now The Hard Part

  • Focus instead on this: If even Mr. Buffett can fail to appreciate a potential conflict of interest under his very nose, then ordinary investors need to realize just how pervasive and insidious conflicts are throughout the financial world.

    WSJ: The Intelligent Investor: Would You Trade on Inside Information, Too?

  • Four soldiers, rifles at rest, stood guard as ordinary New Zealanders said goodbye to a national hero, whose achievements are known around the world.

    CNN: Final farewell for Edmund Hillary

  • Everything about Opus Dei, at least from the official point of view, exists to promote this aim: forming ordinary laymen and women in Christian doctrine and spirituality, so that they may sanctify the world from within, using their own judgment about the best means to do so in their particular profession or walk of life.

    NPR: A Glimpse Inside a Catholic 'Force': Opus Dei

  • The Arab world is not like eastern Europe two decades ago, when repressive regimes tumbled because ordinary people suddenly dislodged the prop of Soviet power.

    ECONOMIST: Tunisia and the Arab world

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